Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:58:36 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Why exactly a power of two ? To get rid of ->index ?
To make things like "page - mem_map" et al. use shifts instead of
expensive multiplies...
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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